Apr 6, 2015
After five years of worshiping in bank lobbies and singing in the streets, Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) has pushed the seventh largest bank in the US into issuing a policy that effectively ends its investment in mountaintop removal coal mining. Through personal stories from the design and execution of the EQAT campaign, Eileen will share her own story of feeling led to engage in nonviolent direct action and how it has moved her from despair about the climate crisis to greater faith, hope, and involvement.
“Simple, beautiful and nourishing, this book is a necessary reminder that the renewable energy we need most is people power!”
—Bill McKibben, founder 350.org
Eileen Flanagan is the clerk of the board of Earth Quaker Action Team, a teacher in Pendle Hill’s new Answering the Call to Radical Faithfulness program, and a member of Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting. Her newest book, Renewable: One Woman’s Search for Simplicity, Faithfulness, and Hope, is about her midlife realization that she was not living in sync with her values and the journey that led her to handcuff herself to the White House fence.
Eileen will sell and sign copies of her new book, Renewable: One Woman’s Search for Simplicity, Faithfulness, and Hope, after the lecture.
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